Blog - /blog/2013/03/20/there-federal-budget-2013-detailed-updates/
March 20, 2013 - ...spending bill called a continuing resolution instead of a real budget for fiscal 2013. That continuing resolution expires on March 27. If lawmakers don't pass new legislation the federal gov...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/01/sequestration-and-so-it-begins/
March 4, 2013 - ...spending cuts known as sequestration.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-second-defense-department/
Feb. 28, 2013 - ...homeland security.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-spending-since-911/
Feb. 28, 2013 - ...homeland security since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/26/is-obama-inflating-sequester-impacts/
Feb. 26, 2013 - ...spending cuts, known as a sequester, threaten to take effect Friday. President Barack Obama, who has learned a lesson about one-on-one negotiation with congressional Republicans, has taken to campaign...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/15/future-federal-spending-transparency-part-two-data-act/
June 15, 2012 - ...spending transparency. In June 2011, he established a new panel of ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/on-the-war-path-the-nearly-1-trillion-national-sec/
May 22, 2012 - Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/just-how-much-does-washington-spend-on-national-se/
May 22, 2012 - The Pentagon base budget of $530 billion is only
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/one-trillion-for-defense/
May 22, 2012 - ...spending on national security these days? With major wars winding down, has Washington already cut such spending so close to the bone that further reductions would be perilous to our safety?
Blog - /blog/2012/05/10/pass-the-data-act/
May 10, 2012 - ...spending data isn't a partisan matter. We support the DATA Act because accurate spending information is critical to an informed budget conversation.
Blog - /blog/2011/09/20/cost_of_war/
Sept. 20, 2011 - ...security” ...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/16/How-Safe-Are-You/
Aug. 16, 2011 - ...security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging ...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/10/mainers-vote-their-priorities/
Aug. 10, 2011 - In the midst of Congressional debates about debt, budget cuts, and tax increases, a “penny poll” was held in every Maine county asking participants, “How would you like your federal tax dollars spent?...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/10/congress-taking-food-poor-women-and-children-save-few-bucks/
June 10, 2011 - Ask Kyle – Putting the “Bud” back in Federal BudgetWell...maybe. The actual answer is complicated. Although that might be an a reasonable conclusion to draw if you recently read that Congress was plan...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/31/us-security-spending-911/
May 31, 2011 - ...Security Spending Since 9/11," an analysis of total federal spending on defense and homeland security since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The key findings of the report were:The United ...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - ...security” since the attacks on September 11, 2001. National Priorities Project has the numbers.
Blog - /blog/2011/05/12/house-spending-levels-cut-everyoneexcept-defense/
May 12, 2011 - ...spending each appropriations subcommittee will have for the programs under their jurisdiction for the coming year. 302(b) allocations are based on the Budget Resolution which was introduced by House B...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/analysis-fiscal-year-2011-budget-agreement/
April 13, 2011 - Quite literally at the 11th hour on Friday, April 8, narrowly averting a government shutdown, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and President Obama reached agreement on a spending bill t...
Blog - /blog/2011/03/18/continuing-resolution-number-6-end2/
March 18, 2011 - The Senate passed a sixth Continuing Resolution on March 17, 2011, which cuts an additional $6 billion from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. The FY 2011 year ends September 30, 2011 and Republican leaders...
Blog - /blog/2011/03/08/what-heck-does-federal-budget-have-do-michigan/
March 8, 2011 - I had the real privilege of speaking at the Michigan Forum on Jobs and Human Needs on Saturday, March 6, 2001. Sponsored by a great mix of labor, faith, peace and student groups, the event was held in...
